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Drop your resume. We show you the plain text an applicant tracking system pulls out of it, and what got lost on the way. Free, no signup.
Drop your resume here, or click to choose a file
PDF or DOCX, up to 10 MB
We don't keep your resume. The file is read in memory and dropped as soon as you get your result.
An applicant tracking system does not look at your resume. It pulls the text out of the file and sorts it into fields: name, email, jobs, dates, degree, skills.
Text inside images, icons, headers, footers and text boxes is often skipped. Columns and tables are flattened, sometimes in the wrong order.
If your email went missing or your job titles landed next to the wrong dates, that is the version of you the recruiter finds. Or does not find.
An applicant tracking system is the software most employers use to collect applications. When you upload a resume, it extracts the text and files it into a database record: contact details, work history, education, skills. Recruiters then search and filter those records. A person usually still reads your resume, but often only after finding you through that record.
A PDF has no idea what a column is. It stores pieces of text at positions on a page. A parser has to guess the reading order, and with two columns it often reads straight across both, or reads the whole sidebar first and the main column after. The words all survive, but your dates end up next to the wrong job and your skills list lands in the middle of a sentence. A single column can only be read one way.
No. There is no such thing as one ATS score: every system parses differently and none of them publish a number. The percentage is our estimate of how much of your text comes out clean and in order, based on the checks listed with your result. Use the list of findings, not the number, to decide what to fix.
We don't keep your resume. The file is read in memory to extract its text, the result is sent back to you, and the file is dropped. It is not saved, not logged and not sent to any AI model. If you choose to share your score, we store the number and which checks failed, and nothing else, for 30 days.
A PDF with real, selectable text is read by most systems and keeps your formatting. A DOCX is the safest choice when the application form asks for Word. What matters more than the type is that the text is real text: a scanned page or a design exported as an image is invisible to a parser.
No. The check is free and needs no account. You can run it 10 times a day.